Conformance of Malaysia e-commerce blogs with quality content theories

Recently the use of blog as an e-commerce site has become popular in Malaysia.Significant changes can be seen in e-commerce usage as more people are connected to the Internet through faster broadband connection. Nonetheless, trust remains a major issue when it involves online transaction. Informatio...

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Main Authors: Hassan, Syahida, Zambri, Suzana, Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin, Mahli, Mohamad Tarmidi, Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana, Muhammad, Muziah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IBIMA Publishing 2012
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/9561/1/168019.pdf
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author Hassan, Syahida
Zambri, Suzana
Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin
Mahli, Mohamad Tarmidi
Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana
Muhammad, Muziah
author_facet Hassan, Syahida
Zambri, Suzana
Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin
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description Recently the use of blog as an e-commerce site has become popular in Malaysia.Significant changes can be seen in e-commerce usage as more people are connected to the Internet through faster broadband connection. Nonetheless, trust remains a major issue when it involves online transaction. Information displayed on the blog is vital and considered as one of the important factors to gain the consumer trust.This paper is a preliminary study particularly focusing on the conformance of Malaysia E-Commerce blogs with related theories on quality online content.Samples were taken from Malaysia e-commerce blogs to identify the information that is shared by the owner of respective blogs.The information collected from the blog is then compared to the quality contents’ theories.Descriptive statistic is used to describe the findings. Findings from this paper can be used as a guideline for entrepreneurs who intend to use blogs for e-commerce purposes.
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spelling uum-95612014-03-31T08:39:58Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/9561/ Conformance of Malaysia e-commerce blogs with quality content theories Hassan, Syahida Zambri, Suzana Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin Mahli, Mohamad Tarmidi Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana Muhammad, Muziah HF Commerce Recently the use of blog as an e-commerce site has become popular in Malaysia.Significant changes can be seen in e-commerce usage as more people are connected to the Internet through faster broadband connection. Nonetheless, trust remains a major issue when it involves online transaction. Information displayed on the blog is vital and considered as one of the important factors to gain the consumer trust.This paper is a preliminary study particularly focusing on the conformance of Malaysia E-Commerce blogs with related theories on quality online content.Samples were taken from Malaysia e-commerce blogs to identify the information that is shared by the owner of respective blogs.The information collected from the blog is then compared to the quality contents’ theories.Descriptive statistic is used to describe the findings. Findings from this paper can be used as a guideline for entrepreneurs who intend to use blogs for e-commerce purposes. IBIMA Publishing 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/9561/1/168019.pdf Hassan, Syahida and Zambri, Suzana and Kasiran, Mohd Khairudin and Mahli, Mohamad Tarmidi and Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana and Muhammad, Muziah (2012) Conformance of Malaysia e-commerce blogs with quality content theories. Journal of Internet and e-Business Studies, 2012. pp. 1-9. ISSN 21690391 http://dx.doi.org/10.5171/2012.168019 doi:10.5171/2012.168019 doi:10.5171/2012.168019
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Zambri, Suzana
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Abd Ghani, Nor Farzana
Muhammad, Muziah
Conformance of Malaysia e-commerce blogs with quality content theories
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title_short Conformance of Malaysia e-commerce blogs with quality content theories
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